Espen Farstad was born in Ålesund in 1985, one year after the year notoriously used by George Orwell as a title for his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, later adapted into the movie 1984 (1984), directed by Michael Radford. Despite his relative short career as an actor, Farstad has already starred in series such as Aber Bergen (2016), and is also widely acknowledged for his resemblance to Jonathan Frakes of the award winning sci-fi series Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) and The Waltons (1972).